On August 6, 2010, the Washington Post published D.C. journalist Mark Plotkin's letter to the editor on "A strategy for statehood."

Anise Jenkins of Stand Up! For Democracy reports that Nigel Lythgoe, executive producer of "So You Think You Can Dance," gave a thumbs up for D.C. statehood at the July 31, 2010 first annual National Dance Day on the National Mall in Washingotn, D.C.

On July 15, 2010 on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol, the ACLU of the Nation's Capital, in cooperation with D.C. Statehood - Yes We Can!, Stand Up! For Democracy, the D.C. Statehood Green Party, the National Black Police Association, D.C. Appleseed and others, held "An Evening of Education and Entertainment In Support of D.C. Statehood."  Local Hip Hop and Rap artists and statehood advocates joined together to support D.C. Statehood.

The American Civil Liberties Union of the Nation's Capital, D.C. Statehood - Yes We Can!, Stand Up! For Democracy, the D.C. Statehood Green Party, the National Black Police Association, D.C. Appleseed, D.C. Vote and others saluted D.C.'s military and statehood veterans July 14, 2010.

In the June 30, 2010 editorial, the editors of the Current Newspapers in Washington, D.C. as District residents' hope for an end to their disenfranchisement has faded, "thanks to a lack of will and a surplus of partisan politics," the "time may be right ... to step back and look at the options" - voting rights or statehood.